Guillaume Ier of Scotland

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Guillaume Ier or William ( Uilleam Garbh ) known as the Lion, king d' Écosse of 1165 with 1214.

Wire junior by the count Henri de Northumberland and by Ada de Warenne it is born about 1143. He is briefly titular count of Northumberland between 1153 and 1157. He becomes king with dead of his older brother Malcolm IV the December 9th 1165 and is crowned with the abbey of Scone the next on December 24th.

In 1173, it joined the revolt of the wire of Henri II of England but is captured and sent as captive to Falaise in Normandy where it must recognize as suzerain the English king and to promise homage to him on December 8th, 1174 (Traité Cliff).

In 1175, the county of Huntingdon is confiscated to him for its participation in the rebellion of wire of Henri II.

In 1185 is published the curious handwritten genealogy ( ms. Brit. Driven. Cott. Faustina A. VIII .) who draws up the list of his ancestors, kings of Scotland, Dal Riada and Ireland until Japhet wire of Noah!

He marries with the palate of Woodstock in England, the September 5th 1186, Ermengarde de Beaumont died in 1234, girl of Richard Ier de Beaumont in Maine from which he has 4 children of which:

Alexandre II
Marguerite, wife of Hubert de Burgh, Count de Kent and Justicier of Angleterre ;
Isabelle, wife of Roger II Bigod, 4th Count de Norfolk.

Guillaume Ier is also the father of 9 illegitimate children born from various connections of which:

Robert born towards 1166
Henry tells Galightly born towards 1168
Marguerite (towards 1170+1226) wife of Eustace de Vesci (+1216)
Isabelle marries Robert IV Bruce (+1191) then of Robert de Ros (+1227)
Aufrica marries of William de Say
Ada (+1200) wife of Patrick I of Dunbar (+1232)

Its reign is one longest of the history of Scotland. He dies in 71 years the December 4th 1214 with Stirling and is buried with the abbey of Arbroath.

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